It is just Stupid me returning your query.
I went with the wrong approach and seeing two -tng files and assuming wrongly that the one with a six in it was the latest version, I did not have five downloaded.
It did work.
I could see the specified directory on a WinXP networked PC.
I guess I can blame it on all the pain pills I am taking for my progressively worse degenerative authritus.

I set it up as \\pupserver\Canon_MP490_series (local port) with the only driver I could see close to HP Color Lasejet PS, which is HP Color Laserjet 2800 series PS

Interestingly it prints (to the printer) the error!

To wit;

Quote:

ERROR: configurationerror
OFFENDING COMMAND: setpagedevice

STACK:

-dictionary-

Before the error it feeds through a blank page.

XP prints fine. However it allowed me to install the MP490 driver off the CD.

Having trouble with puppy and apple but I should be able to figure out those.

EDIT Ha! I jumped the gun! I tried again with the Canon driver and this time it worked. Still... would be interesting to find out if the HP post script driver can be used since there seems to be no problem seeing the Printer._________________Puppy Linux Blog - contact me for access

Then we slightly fork from rcrsn51's great instructions. The next window is titled "Banners". For the Starting Banner and Ending Banner choose standard from the pulldown lists. This is where I was going wrong I think.

This sets the default options, print your test page and you are away.

For Mac OS-X:
Then you choose the Generic drivers and at the bottom you find Generic PostScript. That's the one

Next page allows choice of paper size and then you are done. Print a test page from the Maintenance pulldown. You may have to configure applications to use the printer.

FOOTNOTE: in mac-osx your username and passworrd for CUPS is your name you entered when you first setup your mac all lowercase and no spaces, no underscores either. Password is the one you set up at that same time.

Yes and no. If you have tng installed then why not take advantage of it? One less daemon running

The CUPS daemon is running anyway. And it eliminates any problems with logging into the server because CUPS doesn't need it.

Either way, you have to fight through the problem of who will format the print job - the client or the server. It the server is going to format the job using its own CUPS driver, then the client will usually send the job as Postscript. However, if a Windows client uses its own driver, CUPS can sometimes detect this and send the job directly to the printer. (This may depend on how the CUPS package was built.)

Since OS-X is using its own version of CUPS, I would assume that it uses the same rules as a Puppy client.

It seems CUPS is somewhat crippled in OS-X. Macs have a dumb gui to set up printers. They only offer a gui to set up detected local printers, "windows" shares (ie smb) and another to set up ipp, hp socket or lpd, that's it.

Of course none of this works with using CUPS as the server or samba-tng (and I suspect full samba).

As I reported a few posts ago, I was able to set up printing using smb://server/printer and print a test page. Ok.. but that is useless when you need to do some real world printing. I tried to print some of wifey's recipes (yes actual food recipes) that she had downloaded and saved as .odt documents with openoffice and no go. Nothing (but errors of course). So then I tried from various other apps, same result. <scratches head/>

Then I deleted the printer in the CUPS web interface and tried the HP Color Laserjet 2800 (presumably formatting as postscript) and I I could print, but it was garbage, just the title of the page and a CUPS logo, no matter what app.

I then discovered the generic category in the drivers list. At the bottom is the Generic PostScript driver. Bingo! Tried that and succeeded. The mac even recognised it in it's dumb wizard. I successfully printed a couple of said recipes and a web page from firefox. That's good enough for me.

I'll edit my above post for the mac.

Oh, and I think samba, be it full or tng, is the only easy way to print to puppy, perhaps most linux, from mac OS-X, without diving in and editing the CUPS config files at a minimum._________________Puppy Linux Blog - contact me for access

It seems CUPS is somewhat crippled in OS-X. Macs have a dumb gui to set up printers. They only offer a gui to set up detected local printers, "windows" shares (ie smb) and another to set up ipp, hp socket or lpd, that's it.

IPP is the protocol used by CUPS to share its printers. It would be interesting to know if a CUPS shared printer would be auto-detected by OS-X like it is by a Puppy client.

Thanks: it works perfectly!
Only issue I got was because Firewall not disabled: I would put the word Firewall on bold in page 1 for future users. It's becoming a need as new Netbooks with Win7 Starter don't allow for IPP printing.
Did anybody try sharing a scanner as well (I already had it shared in Ubuntu)? Rcrsn51, I saw your comments about a Brother scanner, but I already have two, and would like to avoid buying a 3rd one...

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